half-pint
Example Sentences
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This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
The prices of two frozen pie crusts and a half-pint of whipping cream rose by 26% to $3.68 and $2.24, respectively.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2022
In Denver, broken parts at the milk supplier’s plant affected shipments of half-pint cartons, on top of disruptions at one time or another in cereal, tortillas and juice.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021
I killed the fruit flies for Kenneth Cooper, whose lab was up on the second floor, where he and his wife, Ruth, geneticists, raised them in half-pint glass milk bottles.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
“In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
